This book offers the first full-length study of Charlotte Smith\'s Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its \'place\' - in multiple ways - in literary history as a work celebrated for \'making it new\', yet deeply engaged with the literary past.
It argues that Smith\'s sonnets are constituted by three intertwined concerns: with tradition, Place and the sonnet Form itself, whereby the subjects of Smith\'s sonnets - across birds, rivers, the sea, plants and flowers - are bound up with the literary context in.
This book offers the first full-length study of Charlotte Smith\'s Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its \'place\' - in multiple ways - in literary history as a work celebrated for \'making it new\', yet deeply engaged with the literary past